Duffy Quotes

'Before I Ever Met You' was the first one to come out and that just dives into the grit, and it's pretty graphic about a relationship. For my first song, it was very special the way it happened, because I didn't really hold anything back, and people responded to it.

One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.

I need to write about love. I need to think and think and write about love-otherwise, my soul won’t survive.

Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.

I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.

All good works of art must ask this question: 'You want to breathe free, yes, but do you know how to kiss?'

You can't write a song out of thin air you have to feel and know what you are writing about.

Love is the art of hearts, and heart or arts.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

Isn't falling in love always the fullest life?

Love makes a good eye squint.

Love wasn't a happening one decided on---to indulge or not, to partake or not. To feel or not. When it came, when it struck, the only decision left to make was how to respond---whether you embraced it, took it in, and made it a part of you, or whether you turned your back and let it die.

Without love, most of life remains concealed. Nothing is as fascinating as love, unfortunately.

I think that, when you're writing your songs, there's always a debate about whether, is that you in the song? Is it not you in the song?

Love is a many trousered thing.

Love removes the world for you, and just as surely when it's going well as when it's going badly.

Most people experience love, without noticing that there is anything remarkable about it.

I write songs about my own experiences. You can't lie to yourself. You can't pose to yourself.

The real drug, I came to believe, was love.

They say that falling in love is wonderful, it's wonderful, so they say.

He loves me." "You sound surprised." "Nobody ever did. Not like this. It's easy to say, for some people. The words. But it's not just words with Roarke. He sees inside me, and it doesn't matter.

Most of us have loved. And the terror for a writer is that readers will forgive you so much, but they won't forgive you one false note about love, about which they too are expert.

One should always be in love.

Love is fine for singing about and love songs are good to listen to, sometimes even to dance to. But when we need food for our stomachs and clothes for our backs, love is nothing. Ah my lady, the last man any woman should think of marrying is the man she loves.

In my arms is a woman who has given me a Skywatcher's Cloud Chart, a woman who knows all my secrets, a woman who knows just how messed up my mind is, how many pills I'm on, and yet she allows me to hold her anyway. There's something honest about all this, and I cannot imagine any other woman lying in the middle of a frozen soccer field with me - in the middle of a snowstorm even - impossibly hoping to see a single cloud break free of a nimbostratus.